CensysShodan and Censys: the ominous guides through the Internet of Things
Shodan and Censys are the search engines for the Internet of Things and this duo is capable of wreaking havoc in a lot of different ways
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adviceMobile fingerprint sensors: more or less secure?
Vendors claim, that a fingerprint sensor in your smartphone is user-friendly and really secure. But it’s not true.
black boxesHey, captain, what’s wrong with your vessel? Ships black boxes are vulnerable to hackers
Ships have their own black boxes but their security leaves much to be desired
The unconventional list of top security events in 2015
Konstantin Goncharov recaps the most significant security events of 2015.
How your PC can be infected with just one email you didn’t actually read
We’ve told you this time and time again: never click suspicious links, never open files received from unknown sources, always delete mail from untrusted senders. While all of these pieces
Lifehack: Treat your passwords as delicately as you treat your underwear
Kaspersky Lab has recently conducted an unusual research and proved that many users hardly care about security. Here is the reason to create reliable passwords for all of your accounts.
Voice as a threat: VoLTE, a new way to compromise mobile networks
Criminals can use VoLTE to cause connection failure, subdue voice calls, or strip the victim’s mobile account of money.
hackersMission: Hacking Grandma. Level: piece of cake.
Many would think that the root of all the cyber-evil is tech itself, and once you say no to fancy smart devices, all those spooky cyber-threats should go away. If
87% of Android smartphones are insecure and that’s no joke
Google’s Android OS is a vulnerable system. Developers make it worse by not providing critical patches in time.
bugsSecurity Week 40: the ‘not-really-a-vulnerability’ in WinRAR, an ancient bug in Firefox, and the oops!-update by Microsoft
I wonder what will happen when there are no more infosec problems. Will our Threatpost news blog convert to a digest of kitty cats? Is this bright future feasible at
appleSecurity Week 39: XcodeGhost, the leak of D-Link certificates, $1M for bugs in iOS9
Today’s weekly news digest covers the stories about various mistakes in coding, and how they can be used for different purposes, including earning money.
Security Week 38: Cisco routers under attack, a bug in AirDrop, and the arrest of cryptohawkers
Our today’s weekly news digest covers three stories about the mistakes coders make when programming robots, the way other people exploit those design flaws, and then the reckoning.
Good security habits for everyone
Cyber-literate users possesses a variety of good habits, which protect them online and offline. What are these traits?
Security Week 36: jailbreak theft, farewell to RC4 and holes in routers
Information security digest: the greatest iOS theft, farewell to RC4 cipher, multiple vulnerabilities in routers
Security Week 35: Nothing personal, just business
Infosec digest: exploit kit Neutrino in Wordpress, yet another GitHub DDoS, Wyndham responsible for breach, while Target is not
Security Week 34: One cannot simply patch…
One can find a number of reasons why this very bug cannot be patched right now, or this quarter, or, like, ever. Yet, the problem has to be solved.
Security Week 32: Android Stagefright, new car hacks, Do Not Track 2.0
Merely 23 years ago Microsoft released Windows 3.1 operating system, Apple showed its first iPhone PDA, and Linus Torvalds released Linux under GNU license. Eugene Kaspersky published the book with
Tesla Model S being hacked and patched blazing-fast
Researchers compete at finding security holes in infotainment systems of connected cars and breaking in. The new case proves that Tesla does care a lot about security at wheel.
Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
Recently we wrote about the Jeep Cherokee hack incident. At Black Hat security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek finally explained, how exactly the now-famous Jeep hack happened.
LastPass users have to urgently change their passwords
Online password managers can make your life much easier by automatically entering individual passwords for each website and service you have an account for. It’s a convenient tool. That is,
Talk Security: Flash, Ghost, Anthem and Previewing SAS
It’s the beginning of February and we’ve already seen three Adobe Flash zero days, an Internet wide-vulnerability in Linux and our first massive data breach of Anthem Inc., an enormous